Cacao Chia Pudding

Breakfast, Snack, Dessert

Eat cacao and lower your blood pressure. Cacao comes from the cacao bean and like other beans has wonderful health promoting flavanol phytonutrients like in green tea (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cocoa-good-chocolate-bad/)

This recipe is one of my favourite healthy snacks. It also makes an amazing simple dessert layered with cashew cream and berries.

Serves 4

Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten Free, Paleo

Ingredients

Chia Pudding:

3Tbsp raw cacao powder

2Tbsp maple syrup

2/3 Cup chia seeds

2 1/4 Cups plant based milk (coconut is my favourite)

1tsp vanilla extract

Cashew Cream:

1 Cup of cashew soaked for a few hours

1tsp vanilla extract

1Tbs maple syrup or to taste

Method

Chia Pudding:

Mix together raw cacao powder and chia seeds

Add your choice of milk, vanilla extract and maple syrup

Whisk together and leave overnight in the fridge

Cashew Cream:

Drain soaked cashew and put in blender

Add maple syrup, vanilla extract

Start slowly blending and add small amounts of milk to reach smooth consistency

Layer in a glass with chia pudding, cashew cream and top with berries.